The Prelude Exhibition of The First Shanghai Graphic Design Biennale – TopoPoster: International Poster Design Exhibition, after six months (June – December, 2025) of planning and preparation, was successfully held from December 13 to December 22, 2025. As one of the larger-scale exhibitions in recent years featuring an international selection of works in China, it showcased over 300 representative poster designs from 153 influential contemporary designers and studios active in the forefront of the field across 28 countries.

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Posters created as part of Art and Gardens 2024 in Saron-sur-Aube, France. The principle of this festival is to welcome several dozen artists for a weekend who display their works in the gardens of their hosts.

This diptych consists of a poster screen-printed in 3 passes and a second in 1 single pass in matte black. In the first, a Ford Nova falls vertically while in the second, black and organic sheets float in a space that is both infinite and delimited.

As they wander through Sido and Vincent's garden, the viewer is confronted with these images. A diptych heralding collapse but also regeneration, it can be read in a double sense and invites the viewer to imagine his own scenario.

Virgile Laguin

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